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BOOK MARK AND PAPER CUTTER.

" No. 261,976. Patented Aug. 1, 1882.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK D. ADAMS, on AUBURN, CALIFORNIA.

BOOK-MARK AND PAPER-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,976, dated Augustll, 1882.

Application filed April 1, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK D. ADAMS, of the town of Auburn, in the countyof Placer and State of California, have invented a new and usefulCombination Book-Mark and Paper- Outter, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to securely mark any page of a book ormagazine, so that it may be conveniently referred to at any future time,and also to cut or separate any leaves of books or magazines which havenot been properly separated.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of theinstrument, which is to be made of brass or other metal. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of open book with the bookmark partially adjusted tomark the place where the book is open, and Fig. 3 is a view showing theuse of the instrument as a papercutter.

The instrument is formed with a straight elastic blade, B, and a tongue,A, connected thereto at one end and curved toward and then from theplane of the blade.

0 is a handle to facilitate the handling of the instrument. The tongue Ais curved upward, so that i may readily pass into books of varioussizes,

while the blade B, which is made to spring,

closely grips the back of the book, thereby holding the book-marksecurely in place. The

book-mark is to be pushed forward into the book until the part at Dtouches the book. The book-mark is then securely adjusted.

In cutting leaves the tongue Aacts as a guide, for while its extreme endis held over the paper the knife B cannot slip.

I am aware that a paper-cutter and bookmark has been formed by means ofa blade doubled upon itself in such manner that the ends shall lie inplanes parallel with each other. In my invention, however, the tongue iscurved toward and from the plane of the blade in order to adapt theinstrument to books of diferent sizes. With this construction a bookhaving a very thin back may be clamped and held to mark a given pagewith the same facility as one having a very thick back, while the handleadds greatly to the convenience of the reader in using the instrument.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, -is

The combined paper-cutter and book-mark, consisting of the straightelastic blade B, and the tongue A, connected thereto at one end andcurved toward and from the plane of the blade, and the handle 0,substantially as shown and described.

FRANK D. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

OHAs. H. GRAHAM, J. W. SMITn.

